Improvement in nails for pictures



T. O. RICHARDS. Y NAIL FOR 'PIGTURBS, &c.

No. 110,500. PatentedDecfZl, 1870.

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THOMAS ofRIc A'nDs, on NEW YORK, n.1,

Letters Patent No. 110,500, dated December 27, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT lN NAILS- FOR PICTURES &c.

The Schedule referred to ln these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

that-the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, in which I,

Figure 1 represents a face riewioi' a nail-head and metal fastening-ring applied thereto.

Figure 2 is a face view of the plate held by said ring.

Figure 3 is a face view head, ring, and plate united.

Figure-4 is acentral section of the nail :and plate separated.

Figure 5 is a central section of the same, showing them uuited.

" Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention has forv its object to provide a'cnn.-'

veuient fastening on glass buttons, knobs, nail-heads, 850., or the plates to which the eyes, shanks, nails, or other holders are secured.

The invention consists in the combination, with such glass button, knob, or head, of a metallic ring having a flange inserted within the peripheryau'd on the under side of the'lmob when in a plastic or molten condition, the ring thus secured serving to hold a plate to which the spikeor nail isattachech A in the drawing represents a button, knob, or nailhead made at glass, of-suitable size and sharpen,

To its inner face is secured a metal ring, B, which has inwardly-projecting.prongs, a a, that are fitted into the glass while thesaiue is still in a semi-liquid state, they serving therefore to firmly connect the ring with the glass. The ring, as applied to the glass, projects like a flange from the glass, as in figs. 1 and'4.

0 is'the metal plate, which is provided with a scrcwthread, b, as in lig. 4, or with projecting ears-c, as in tig. 5, orwith other suitable means for holding the :nail 1), or other article of which the glass is tube the head. This plate, which I prefer-to provide with scalloped edges, as in fig. 2, to make it more elastic, is just large enough to lit withinthe ring'B, as indicated in-lig. 4. \Vhcn the plate 0 is placed against the glass, but within the ring, the ring is turned inwardly to overlap said'plate, and thereby secure the same to the glass, as is clearly shown in lig.- 5.

Having thus'described my invention,

1 claim as new and desire to Patentv The combination, with the knob A, of the ring 1;, inserted within the periphery and on the underside of the samewhen in a plastic or molten'state, and having its edge turned down over the plate ('1', which is adapted to receive a shank or nail, substantially as specified. v

- THOMAS C. RICHARDS Witnesses:

Geo. W. MABEE', T. B. Mosuisu.

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